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Developing reading: high quality, subject-specific CPD for primary practitioners

The Herts Primary English team share their extensive range of high quality, subject-specific CPD for the coming monthsm with reading firmly at the...

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A Reading Blog

Reading is an environmentally triggered skill. You have to be taught in order to learn. Children, however are not blank slates. The experiences they...

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Developing Vocabulary: a Pointless activity

Michelle Nicholson shares some practical strategies for developing vocabulary with a particular focus on exploring closely related words.

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Spelling: tracking back to move forward

Michelle Nicholson explores the importance of building links to prior learning to help close gaps in children’s spelling.

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Our Journey to a Reading Revolution

In this guest blog, Cowley Hill Primary School share their exciting journey towards creating an irresistible school library.

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Read it like you mean it!

A timely blog from our archives, reminding us that reading fluency has been high on our agenda for some time.

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Writing that is going places: developing cohesion, chronology & control in Year 5

Jane Andrews and Martin Galway share insights from the development and trialling of a new writing intervention that focuses on developing confident...